Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1883 — Thoughts About Women. [ARTICLE]

Thoughts About Women.

God created woman only to tame man.—Voltaire. The egotism of woman is always for two. —Mime, de Stael. Lcve decreases when it ceases to increase. —Chateaubriand. Men are woman’s plaything, women are the devil’s.—Victor Hugo. Women like brave men exceedingly audacious men still more.—Lemesles. Men would be saints if they loved God as they love woman. —Saint Tomas. It is easier to take care of a peck of fleas than one woman. —Frenoh Proverb. A lover has all the virtues mid all the defects that a husband has not—Bulger. Many men kill themselves for love, but many more woman die of it. —Lementry. Marriage is a lottery in wnioh men stake their liberty and woman their happiness. —Mad. de Stael. Wemen give then salves' to God whan the devil wants nothing to do with them. —Sophia Arnold. , Woman deceived by itnen want to marry them; it is a kind of revenge||ae!good as other. —Beamanorl. Respect your wife, heap earth around that flower but never drop any in the ohalce.—A de Mussett. There are three things I have always loved and have never understood: Painting, music and woman. —FontenelL There will always remain something to be said about woman, as long there is one on earth. —Bouffiers. Before promising a woman to love only her, one should have seen them all, or should see only her.—Huprey. It is not easy to be a widow; one must assume all the modesty of girlhood,without being allowed to feign even its gnoranoe.—Mme. de Girardin.

The Secretary of the Navy has reported to Congress a formidable list of casualties to the Navy, it being a list of fortythree vessels whose names have been stricken from the navy list by recommendation of examining boards under authority of the act of August 5, last. It is recommended that four of these be retained for various purposes, nine be broken up ii. tne stocks, and thirty-one be sold at public auction. This makes a heavy reduction in the apparent strength of the United States Navy,